SKIP TO MAIN CONTENT Skip to... Select EXPLORE OUR BRANDS The Wall Street Journal Inside Israel’s High-Tech Campaign to Kill or Capture Every Oct. 7 Attacker One by one, militants who videotaped their exploits that day have been identified and killed, in a measure of Israel’s surveillance acumen and desire for retribution The aftermath of an Israeli strike Friday on a residential building in Gaza City. JEHAD ALSHRAFI/ASSOCIATED PRESS By Dov Lieber Follow May 20, 2026 9:00 pm ET Quick Summary Israel launched a highly technical campaign to kill or capture all participants in the Oct. 7 attack, compiling a list of thousands of names. View more Hours after militants crossed from Gaza into Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, a video surfaced of an Israeli woman screaming, “Don’t kill me,” as she was hauled away on a motorcycle, sandwiched between two kidnappers. The young woman, who was among those assaulted at a desert music festival , reached helplessly for her boy...